Clinical implications of T cell exhaustion for cancer immunotherapy

A Chow, K Perica, CA Klebanoff… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has been a remarkable clinical advancement in the treatment of cancer. T
cells are pivotal to the efficacy of current cancer immunotherapies, including immune …

Dynamics and specificities of T cells in cancer immunotherapy

G Oliveira, CJ Wu - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy—ranging from immune-checkpoint blockade
therapy to adoptive cellular therapy and vaccines—have revolutionized cancer treatment …

Single-cell meta-analyses reveal responses of tumor-reactive CXCL13+ T cells to immune-checkpoint blockade

B Liu, Y Zhang, D Wang, X Hu, Z Zhang - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies represent a paradigm shift in the treatment of
human cancers; however, it remains incompletely understood how tumor-reactive T cells …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic CD8+ T cell responses to cancer immunotherapy in human regional lymph nodes are disrupted in metastatic lymph nodes

MK Rahim, TLH Okholm, KB Jones, EE McCarthy… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
CD8+ T cell responses are critical for anti-tumor immunity. While extensively profiled in the
tumor microenvironment, recent studies in mice identified responses in lymph nodes (LNs) …

Molecular signatures of antitumor neoantigen-reactive T cells from metastatic human cancers

FJ Lowery, S Krishna, R Yossef, NB Parikh, PD Chatani… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The accurate identification of antitumor T cell receptors (TCRs) represents a major challenge
for the engineering of cell-based cancer immunotherapies. By mapping 55 neoantigen …

Hypoxia drives CD39-dependent suppressor function in exhausted T cells to limit antitumor immunity

PDA Vignali, K DePeaux, MLJ Watson, C Ye… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical for elimination of cancer cells. Factors within the tumor
microenvironment (TME) can drive these cells to a hypofunctional state known as …

γδ T cells are effectors of immunotherapy in cancers with HLA class I defects

NL de Vries, J van de Haar, V Veninga, M Chalabi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair-deficient (MMR-d) cancers present an abundance of neoantigens that
is thought to explain their exceptional responsiveness to immune checkpoint blockade …

Single-cell analyses reveal key immune cell subsets associated with response to PD-L1 blockade in triple-negative breast cancer

Y Zhang, H Chen, H Mo, X Hu, R Gao, Y Zhao, B Liu… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
In triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), the benefit of combining chemotherapy with
checkpoint inhibitors is still not very clear. We utilize single-cell RNA-and ATAC-sequencing …

Temporal single-cell tracing reveals clonal revival and expansion of precursor exhausted T cells during anti-PD-1 therapy in lung cancer

B Liu, X Hu, K Feng, R Gao, Z Xue, S Zhang, Y Zhang… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Anti-PD-1 treatment has shown unprecedented clinical success in the treatment of non-small-
cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood …

A single-cell map of intratumoral changes during anti-PD1 treatment of patients with breast cancer

A Bassez, H Vos, L Van Dyck, G Floris, I Arijs… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Immune-checkpoint blockade (ICB) combined with neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves
pathological complete response in breast cancer. To understand why only a subset of …